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1. Why did young farm women lead the exodus from

rural areas to cities?
a. They were seeking husbands.
b. Farm work was increasingly becoming male
work because of mechanization.
c. They were fleeing their strict upbringings for
the freedom of the cities.
d. Greater availability of beer in rural areas led to
more spousal abuse by husbands.
e. They were turning their backs on a way of life
that demands their labor for subsistence tasks.

5. How did the settlement house movement distinguish

itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?
a. It helped poor immigrants settle on western
homesteads to relieve urban overcrowding
b. It helped the urban poor purchase their own
homes because of the belief that owning
private property leads to the adoption of
middle-class values
c. It insisted that charity workers live in slum
neighborhoods to better understand the living
conditions of the poor
d. It was not being concerned about the urban
poors propensity for drinking and gambling
e. It tried to keep immigrants settled indoors
until they could behave like Americans

2. Who were the new immigrants who poured into the

United States between 1890 and 1920?
a. Scandinavians and Germans
b. Irish
c. English, Scottish, and Welsh
d. Chinese and Koreans
e. Southern and eastern Europeans

6. Who established Hull House?

a. Susan B. Anthony
b. Jane Addams
c. Carrie Chapman Catt
d. Francis Willard
e. Harriet Tubman

3. Which statement best represents urban residential

patterns among ethnic groups?
a. Immigrants preferred to mix with the general
population in order to assimilate more quickly
into American culture
b. Immigrants tended to live in shabby tenements
until they could afford better housing
c. Religion was the primary factor in ethnic
residential patters because immigrants
congregated around their churches
d. Common language was the primary factor in
ethnic residential patterns, regardless of
national origin
e. Immigrants tried to blot out their memories of
the Old Country by living among different
kinds of people

7. What was the importance of culture for American

Victorians?
a. It served to differentiate immigrants from the
native-born Americans
b. It was an agency of social uplift that could
help those Americans aspiring to middle-class
status
c. It was a code word for decadence, they
believed, because art museums were
repositories of immoral works
d. It was a derogatory term generally used to
describe the lower classes cheap copies of
famous paintings
e. It represented European life and was therefore
considered un-American

4. The Salvation Army was

a. A branch of the military formed to clean up the
slums
b. Organized along pseudo-military lines to
provide food, shelter, and temporary
employment to families
c. A social-welfare organization founded in the
United States based on new ideas of gently
persuading the urban poor to adopt middleclass values
d. Organized by urban immigrants to police their
own ghettoes
e. Formed to employ military tactics to force
poor immigrants out of respectable middle
class neighborhoods

8. During the 1880s and 1890s, which new obligation was

added to the traditional middle-class womans role as
director of the household?
a. She had to cultivate her maternal gifts, such as
sensitivity toward children and religion
b. She had to seek outlets for her creative
energies outside the home
c. She had to foster an artistic environment that
would nurture her familys cultural
improvement
d. She had to foster a home environment which
would encourage her husband to share his
breadwinning and her homemaking duties
e. She had to be the moral beacon shining light
across a sea of male decadence

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9. Which of the following is NOT an example of the
impact of the department store?
a. It overcame middle- and upper-class
reluctance to spend
b. It made shopping an adventure
c. It functioned as a kind of social club and home
away from home for comfortable fixed women
d. It convinced middle class families to buy
cheaper products that they would have to
replace annually
e. It set the standard for consumption

13. The idea that efficient government required control of

institutions by the voters rather than special interests,
and that the involvement of specialists in law,
economics, and social and natural sciences would
produce the most effective government was best
represented by
a. La Follette and his Wisconsin Idea
b. Roosevelt and his Square Deal
c. Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party
d. Oliver Wendell Holmes and his Court
e. Wilson and his New Freedom

10. How were the new research universities of the late 19th
century different from earlier colleges?
a. They stressed the importance of teaching the
classical subjects like Latin and Greek
b. They focused on teaching science and math, to
the exclusion of female students
c. They offered courses in a wide variety of
subject areas and encouraged faculty members
to pursue basic research
d. They made conscientious efforts to have both
male and female students, but only allowed
native-born students
e. They included health-related courses like
physical education and sex education

14. Munn v. Illinois was a victory for

a. Grangers
b. Women
c. Labor unions
d. Corporations
e. Political machines
15. Why did leisure-time activities become increasingly
important to the working class during the late
nineteenth century?
a. Factory labor was growing more routine and
impersonal, and social interactions at the
workplace were increasingly inhibited
b. Working-class Americans viewed leisure
activity as a method of rising to middle-class
status
c. American employers were increasingly
emphasizing leisure and relaxation as a
method of keeping their work force happy and
healthy
d. Leisure-time activities brought Americans of
all ethnicities together and therefore
contributed to a process of Americanization
that most workers desired
e. Factory workers were working shorter days
and weeks and had more time to play

11. The work of which of the following individuals was

NOT an example of modernism in architecture or
painting during the late nineteenth century?
a. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
b. Painter Thomas Eakins
c. Architect Richard Morris Hunt
d. Painter Winslow Homer
12. What did the work of Frances Willard of the Womens
Christian Temperance Union show about many women
in the late nineteenth century?
a. They could rebel against the fundamental
assumptions of middle-class family structure
and the womans role within the family itself
b. They could undercut the very club movement
that they professed to favor
c. They could use a fad such as bicycling without
corsets as the symbol of liberation from
patriarchy
d. They could expand womens sphere while
remaining committed to nurturing
e. All of the above

16. According to its defenders in the late nineteenth

century, college football
a. Epitomized American democratic ideals,
because most Americans played or watched
the game
b. Was a character-building sport that could
function as a surrogate frontier experience in
an increasingly urbanized society
c. Was a safe sport that the nations future
business and professional leaders could
undertake without fear of injury
d. Would teach students the military discipline
and skills necessary as the U.S. became a
world power

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17. What two issues dominated national politics in the
1870s and 1880s?
a. The money supply and civil-service reform
b. Civil-service reform and working conditions in
the factories
c. The money supply and urban slums
d. Civil-service reform and imperialism
e. Imperial expansion and immigration

e.

None of the above

22. What did the Pendleton Act do?

a. It established a civil-service commission
b. It required the use of silver as well as gold to
back paper currency
c. It started the policy of having separate but
equal facilities for blacks and whites
d. It raised tariff rates
e. It gave Congress the power to investigate and
oversee railroad activities

18. Where was the Democratic party strongest in the late

19th century?
a. South
b. Upper Midwest
c. New England
d. West Coast
e. Great Plains

23. Which of the following was a goal of the Greenback

Party?
a. Ending agricultural subsidies
b. Restrictions on labor unions
c. An expanded money supply
d. American annexation of Hawaii
e. High protective tariffs

19. Which of the following statements is NOT true

concerning the 1884 presidential campaign?
a. Mugwumps left the Republican party and
instead supported Democratic candidate
Cleveland
b. Cleveland admitted he had fathered an
illegitimate child
c. A clergyman denounced Democrats as the
party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion
d. The Republicans nominated Blaine, a
candidate who symbolized the patronage
system
e. The Democrats nominated Cleveland, who
had supported Tammany Hall, the New York
political machine

24. Which statement below concerning the farmers

alliance movement is true?
a. The movement was restricted to the agrarian
South, because agriculture was prosperous
elsewhere.
b. The movement initially advocated farmers
cooperatives and eventually turned to politics
c. They were never able to build a membership
large enough to support a presidential
candidate
d. The movement failed to win many supporters
due to its racism
e. They wanted to remain as non-controversial as
possible to gain maximum support in Congress

20. Who became famous for the Cross of Gold speech in

the 1896 presidential election?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. Theodore Roosevelt
c. William McKinley
d. Eugene V. Debs
e. James Weaver

25. Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Populist

and Farmers Alliance movement?
a. Nationalization of the railroads
b. An increased money supply
c. A higher protective tariff
d. Direct election of U.S. senators
e. A graduated income tax

21. Which of the following groups is properly paired with

its position on limiting or expanding the money
supply?
a. Urban workers: limit, because it would
increase their buying power by making each
dollar worth more
b. Bankers: limit, because it would create
economic stability
c. Southern and western farmers: restrict,
because they wanted to make it easier to pay
off their debts
d. Creditors: expand, because then there would
be more money to lend

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26. What did the separate but equal doctrine mean?
a. Although the executive and legislative
branches had separate powers and
responsibilities, the two branches were
constitutionally equal in importance
b. Despite southern schools being segregated,
they were equivalent to northern schools in
facilities, thereby making them constitutional
c. As long as facilities were equivalent, they did
not have to be integrated
d. The northern and southern approaches to race
relations were completely different, but as far
as blacks were concerned, they amounted to
the same thing
e. Labor and capital had different goals and
different world views, but they were equal
under the law

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Agrarian unrest
Free silver
Imperialism
Racism
Immigration

31. Machine politics was

a. A form or urban politics where local
politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban
areas
b. A form of urban politics where the boss of an
official political organization controlled a
particular party or faction in office
c. A social theory in which all interest groups in
society meshed together like the parts of a
machine
d. A negative term given to voting machines
when urban reformers first introduced them
e. A form of urban politics influenced by the
ideas of reformers

27. What impact did the McKinley Tariff have on tariff

rates?
a. It lowered most rates
b. It offset higher tariffs on some products with
lower tariffs on others
c. It raised tariffs to the highest levels in
American history up until that time
d. It kept tariff rates the same but introduced a
national income tax
e. It raised tariffs on agricultural products but
lowered them on industrial ones

32. Jim Crow laws were

a. A method of imposing segregation in things
like streetcars, parks, schools, and public
buildings.
b. Laws instituted by many northern
municipalities in the early twentieth century in
an effort to ensure honest and effective
government
c. Federal laws outlawing discrimination in
public accommodations
d. Pieces of legislation that set aside public
monies to aid black Americans
e. None of the above

28. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

a. Grandfather clauses restricting voting were
unconstitutional
b. States could not regulate interstate railroad
rates
c. The First Amendment did not protect a
persons right to join hate groups
d. Separate but equal facilities for the different
races were constitutional
e. Racial profiling violated the Constitution

33. Who were the muckrakers?

a. Investigative journalists who wrote exposes on
large corporations
b. Politicians who were willing to do anything to
get re-elected
c. Interest group leaders who supported
Progressive reforms
d. Philanthropists who pledged their money to
noble causes
e. Republicans who opposed corruption within
their party

29. What did Booker T. Washington argue?

a. That blacks should leave the United States and
return to Africa
b. That blacks should align themselves with the
Democratic party
c. That blacks should acquire useful skills and
patiently accept their lot until racism faded
d. That blacks should launch a rebellion against
white oppression
e. None of the above
30. What was the main issue in the 1896 presidential
election?

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34. What did Frederick Taylor argue?
a. Businesses should adopt progressive reforms
in an effort to make businesses more humane
b. Businesses could increase efficiency by
standardizing job routines and rewarding the
fastest workers
c. Businesses should combine several competing
corporations into one larger holding company
d. Corporations should narrow the scope of their
business so that they could focus on the core
areas they understood best
e. Corporations should provide workers with
better wages and working conditions in an
effort to prevent government regulation or
outside unionization

a. Teach self-reliance, hard work, and honesty

b. Serve as the handmaidens of industry by
teaching subjects that were most needed by the
business world
c. Become the engines of social change
d. Preserve the role of the teacher as the
unquestioned authority
e. Guard against experimentalism
39. Who was Eugene V. Debs?
a. He directed the crusade against child labor
during the Progressive era
b. He commanded U.S. military forces during
World War I
c. He created the Congress of Industrial
Organizations to challenge the American
Federation of Labor
d. He led the Socialist Party in the early 20th
century
e. He wrote A History of the Standard Oil
Company in which he exposed Rockefellers
corrupt business practices

35. What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, William

James, and Herbert Croly have in common?
a. They formed intellectual and ideological
foundations of Social Darwinism
b. They were the most prominent examples of the
intellectual assault on progressivism that
began around 1920
c. They implicitly supported the need for farreaching reforms of American society
d. They were misread by progressives to mean
that socialism was the nations only hope for
social reform
e. They provided the intellectual and legal
arguments used to support Jim Crow laws

40. What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire illustrate about

American society?
a. That industrialists cared about the best
interests of their workers
b. The increased effectiveness of state regulation
of factories
c. That most Americans cared very little for
black workers
d. That Frederick Winslow Taylors suggestions
for increased production were efficient
e. The extent to which industrialization had
prioritized profit over people

36. Which of the following amendments is NOT accurately

defined?
a. The Sixteenth Amendment permits Congress
to collect income taxes
b. The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct
election of members of the House of
Representatives
c. The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the
manufacture and sale of alcohol
d. The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees the
right to vote for women
e. They are all accurately defined

41. Which of the following writers would NOT be

considered a muckraker?
a. Ida Tarbell
b. Lincoln Steffens
c. Upton Sinclair
d. Gifford Pinchot
e. Jacob Riis

37. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in

a. The oil refining industry
b. The steel industry
c. The railroads industry
d. The meatpacking industry
e. The Bureau of Indian Affairs

42. W.E.B. DuBois was the author of

a. The Souls of Black Folk
b. Up from Slavery
c. How the Other Half Lives
d. Kids at Work
e. The Shame of the Cities

38. According to John Dewey, schools need to

43. The 1910 Mann Act

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a. Established the Pure and Food Drug
Administration
b. Made it a federal crime to transport a woman
across a state line for immoral purposes
c. Limited unions right to set up boycotts in
support of strikes
d. Beefed up the Interstate Commerce
Commissions rate-setting powers
e. Prohibited the sale of alcohol to anyone under
the age of 18

a. It empowered the Interstate Commerce

Commission to set maximum railroad rates
and to examine the financial records of
railroad companies
b. It reversed the breakup of the Standard Oil
Company
c. It made it a federal crime to transport a woman
across a state line for immoral purposes
d. It instituted strict regulation of the
meatpacking industry
e. It established the Federal Reserve system

44. Why did many progressives advocate restricting

immigration to the United States?
a. They concluded that since the immigrant city
bred problems, immigrants should be excluded
b. They believed that urban planners had to be
given time to clear the slums and redesign the
boulevards so that immigrants would see
America at its best
c. They believed that it was cruel to allow
immigrants to come to America if they were
going to have to work in unhealthy factories
d. They believed that until the U.S. economy had
been reformed, it could never expand rapidly
enough to incorporate waves of immigrants
e. They feared that immigrants would support
labor unions and thereby reduce the influence
of individual progressive organizations

47. What might be considered Theodore Roosevelts most

enduring domestic legacy?
a. Increasing public interest in environmental
conservation
b. Improving racial attitudes in Washington, D.C.
c. Supporting the addition of the womens
suffrage amendment to the Constitution
d. Cementing a firm relationship between capital
and labor
e. Regulating the money supply and stabilizing
the banking system
48. Which of the following statements is NOT true about
the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
a. Twelve regional federal reserve banks were
created
b. It combined both public and private control
c. It is considered Wilsons greatest legislative
achievement
d. It was a short-lived idea that was corrupted by
private investment
e. It helped promote economic growth and
combat inflation

45. What did Booker T. Washington believe was the best

way for blacks to improve their status in the United
States?
a. They should struggle militantly against all
forms of racial discrimination in order to gain
educational opportunity.
b. They should form a nationwide council to
work for federal laws against lynching.
c. They should accommodate themselves to
segregation and disenfranchisement while at
the same time working hard and proving their
economic value to society
d. They should migrate to the cities and open
shops and other small businesses to further the
advancement of African Americans in the
north
e. They would never achieve full equality in the
United States and therefore should migrate
back to Africa where they can once again
enjoy economic prosperity

49. Which of the following is an accurate portrayal of

Woodrow Wilson and race relations in America?
a. He criticized the release of the movie The
Birth of a Nation
b. He allowed segregationist southerners in his
cabinet
c. He dined with Booker T. Washington at the
White House
d. He helped push for anti-lynching legislation
e. He worked closely with the NAACP

46. What did the Hepburn Act of 1906 do?

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50. Which of the following is the most accurate
generalization about the attitudes of Progressives
towards African Americans?
a. Most Progressives generally supported or
tolerated segregated schools and housing, and
restrictions on black voting rights
b. Most Progressives viewed African-Americans,
like immigrants, as potential allies
c. Most Progressives worked for a Constitutional
amendment to guarantee voting rights for all
African Americans
d. Most Progressives were racists who thought
African Americans should migrate or be
transported to Liberia
e. Most Progressives were unaware of the
existence of African Americans outside of the
agricultural South

54. Which of the following best accounts for the fact that
Slavic immigrants in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries settled principally in Midwestern
cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago?
a. The immigrants' inability to speak English was
a serious obstacle to securing work on the East
Coast
b. Housing was better and food cheaper in the
newer cities of the Midwest
c. Midwestern steel, meatpacking, and other
mass production industries offered many
unskilled jobs
d. Immigration authorities subsidized rail fares
for westward migrants
e. Ethnic and religious prejudice was less widespread in the Midwest than in eastern cities
55. During Woodrow Wilson's administration, the federal
government attempted to counteract the economic
influence of big business by
a. eliminating the gold standard
b. increasing tariff rates
c. centralizing economic planning
d. applying the provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment to corporations
e. establishing the Federal Trade Commission

51. The publics response to Upton Sinclairs novel The

Jungle helped bring about
a. antitrust legislation
b. the Pure Food and Drug Act
c. the Mann Act
d. a strengthening of the power of urban political
machinesthe panic of 1907
e. Munn v. Illinois
52. In the early twentieth century the largest American
cities were characterized by all of the following
EXCEPT
a. corrupt alliances between machine politicians
and transit and utility interests
b. neighborhoods that were increasingly mixed in
their economic composition
c. transportation systems that expanded the
distance people could live from their work
d. settlement houses and institutional churches
that addressed the problems of the urban poor
e. municipal reform movements based on
scientific government

56. All of the following were objectives of W.E.B. DuBois

EXCEPT
a. the total enfranchisement of all eligible Black
citizens
b. the establishment of an organization to seek
legal redress of Black grievances
c. the establishment of Black political power
d. cooperation with White people in obtaining
Black progress
e. the implementation of Booker T. Washington's
program for Black progress.
57. All of the following were reasons for the failure of the
People's (Populist) party EXCEPT:
a. The radical nature of its program alienated
non-farming interests
b. Racism strained the coalition of poor White
and Black farmers
c. The Democratic party co-opted some of the
Populist program and its constituency
d. Different regions favored different political
strategies
e. The prosperity of the early 1890's undermined
popular support for Populist economic reforms

53. Of the following, which was the most important cause

of agrarian discontent in the United States in the last
quarter of the 19th century
a. The end of the free homesteads
b. The end of the Republican party efforts to
campaign for the farm vote
c. The exhaustion of the soil by poor farming
methods
d. The feeling that railroads were exploiting the
farmers
e. The increase in the number of immigrants

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58. Which of the following best characterizes the
muckrakers of the early twentieth century?
a. They were primarily concerned with racial
issues
b. They were mostly recent immigrants to the
United States
c. They were leading critics of urban boss
politics
d. Their influence on public opinion was greatest
after the First World War
e. They wrote primarily for an academic
audience

63. D. W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation (1915)

became controversial because of its
a. portrayal of the Sons of Liberty as a radical
mob
b. celebration of American freedoms at a time of
protest against radical groups
c. celebration of America's cultural diversity
d. depiction of Ku Klux Klan activities as heroic
and commendable
e. sympathetic treatment of Germany in the years
before the First World War

59. Which of the following was true of the settlementhouse workers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries?
a. They included large numbers of middle-class,
college-educated women
b. They devised programs that departed radically
from those of English settlement houses
c. They established settlement houses in middleclass environments
d. They avoided political involvement
e. They actively endeavored to suppress
immigrant culture

64. The farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the

end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT
a. the failure of the People's party in the 1896
election
b. massive immigration into urban areas that led
to higher prices (or agricultural products
c. crop failures in Europe that led to an increase
in United States grain exports
d. the 1898 Yukon gold strike that increased the
United States government's supply of gold and
cased fanners' access 10 credit
e. the absorption of the populists by the AFL
(American Federation of Labor)

60. The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913

did which of the following?
a. Made currency and credit more elastic
b. Established a floating exchange rate for the
dollar
c. Insured bank deposits
d. Gave Congress the authority to set interest
rates
e. Instituted controls on stock market
transactions

65. Constitutional amendments enacted during the

Progressive Era concerned all of the following
EXCEPT
a. imposition of an income tax'
b. imposition of poll taxes
c. extension of suffrage to women
d. prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages
e. procedures for electing United States senators

61. Which of the following was the most persistent

problem facing municipalities in the United States
throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
a. Decreasing municipal tax bases
b. Inadequate water and sewer systems
c. Deteriorating transportation systems
d. A decline in the number of manufacturing jobs
e. Gang violence among unemployed youths

66. William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was

primarily an expression of his
a. fundamentalist religious beliefs
b. neutral stance toward the belligerents of the
First World War
c. advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of
silver
d. opposition to teaching the theory of evolution
in public schools
e. anti-imperialist convictions

62. Most Progressives sought all of the following EXCEPT

the
a. democratization of the political structure
b. reformation of children's labor laws
c. expansion of women's rights
d. legislative creation of a socialist government
e. application of "scientific methods" to solve
social problems

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67. Which of the following statements regarding Theodore
Roosevelt is NOT true?
a. He was nicknamed trustbuster for his
strategy of going after trusts individually via
lawsuits
b. He dramatically expanded the system of
national parks and national forests
c. He strengthened the position of labor forces in
strike negotiations
d. His square deal included regulation of
railroad rates
e. He favored big business and suggested that the
courts were biased against corporations

72. The leaders of the Progressive movement were

primarily
a. farmers interested in improving agricultural
production
b. immigrant activists attempting to change
restrictive immigration laws
c. representatives of industries seeking higher
tariffs
d. workers concerned with establishing industrial
unions
e. middle-class reformers concerned with urban
and consumer issues
73. In his Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T.
Washington called for which of the following?
a. African American voting rights
b. An end to racial segregation
c. Support for African American self-help
d. Educational equality for African Americans
e. Racial integration of religious organizations

68. Which of the following statements regarding the

Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 is NOT true?
a. It was repealed within a few years
b. It was viewed as a cause of the Panic of 1893
c. It caused a decrease in gold reserves
d. It decreased the amount of money in
circulation
e. It was supported by farmers

74. Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism

because they believed that
a. all races were equal in ability
b. personal development was influenced solely
by hereditary factors
c. conflict and competition did not necessarily
improve society
d. science had no role in society
e. society was fixed by the laws of nature and
incapable of significant change

69. All of the following contributed to Woodrow Wilson

winning the election of 1912 EXCEPT
a. The entry of the United States into World War
I
b. Roosevelt and Taft splitting votes
c. The creation of the Bull Moose Party
d. Insurgents during the Taft Administration
e. A unified democratic party
70. All of the following contributed to the passage of the
Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919
EXCEPT
a. the continued efforts of the Anti-Saloon
League
b. the fervor of the First World War lending
patriotism to the cause of prohibition
c. the Progressive belief in social reform
d. the cumulative impact of state prohibition laws
e. the high death toll from alcohol-related
automobile accidents

75. What is referred to as the the Crime of 1873?

a. The assassination of James Garfield
b. The Coinage Act which abolished bimetallism
and embraced the gold standard
c. The assassination of William McKinley
d. The severe economic depression in Europe
and the United States
e. The United States 7th Cavalry, under
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer,
clashes for the first time with the Sioux
76. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American
agriculture was characterized by
a. a decline in the number of tenant farmers
b. a decline in foreclosures on Midwestern farms
c. a decline in the number of farm cooperatives
d. an increase in wholesale prices for farm
products
e. an increase in acres under cultivation

71. Which of the following emerged during the Progressive

Era as the most influential advocate of full political,
economic, and social equality for Black Americans?
a. W.E.B.DuBois
b. Frederick Douglass
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Ida B. Wells
e. Malcolm X

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77. Why did Insurgents emerge out of the Republican party
during Tafts presidency?
a. They felt Taft was more conservative and was
damaging Progressive goals
b. They had voted for Roosevelt in the election
of 1908
c. They opposed Tafts Bull Moose Party
d. They opposed Tafts trust-busting methods
e. They were opposed to the populist platform
which was being supported by Taft

79. Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives is a study of

a. Jim Crow segregation and its effect on African
Americans
b. the plight of Great Plains farmers in the 1890's
c. immigrant urban poverty and despair in the
1890's
d. the corruption in city political machines in the
1890's
e. the rise of industrial capitalists in the late
nineteenth century

78. Which president was responsible for the Underwood

Tariff Act, which lowered tariffs on imported goods for
the first time in forty years, stimulating foreign trade?
a. Cleveland
b. McKinley
c. Roosevelt
d. Taft
e. Wilson

80. The cartoon is a commentary on late-nineteenthcentury

a. municipal corruption
b. imperialism
c. labor unrest
d. business monopolies
e. civil-rights campaigns

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